Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] sit on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hon. Gentleman sat on the Standing Committee on the Bill he did not vote on any single occasion against the precise measures to which he now refers . |
| 2 | The father was giving evidence at a Perth High Court sitting on the third day of the trial of an Alloa man , David Hepburn , 29 , who is accused of carrying out three sex attacks in 12 hours . |
| 3 | An old man sat on the bench by the War Memorial . |
| 4 | I like that one that 's in Beeston of the old man sitting on the bench there . |
| 5 | The first man I met was an old fellow sitting on the church wall smoking a pipe . |
| 6 | There was no 10-minute conversation sitting on the Queen 's bed . |
| 7 | He saw a tiny woman sitting on the settee , dressed all in black . |
| 8 | Janine , stunned , had gone to the little girl sitting on the crate . |
| 9 | The church seen in the previous picture sits on the hillside as the York-Bournemouth express approaches Tibshelf up distant hauled by class 37 No . |
| 10 | Her song was cut short when she saw the filthy knapsack sitting on the new , pink broadloom and making a smudge against the blush pink wall . |
| 11 | That morning each household found a fine breakfast sitting on the windowsill . |
| 12 | A lone motor-cruiser rumbled upstream , tidily cluttered , steered by an elderly man with a black labrador sitting on the cockpit seat behind him . |
| 13 | My eyes are on the black girl sitting on the floor , slumped against the wall , her eyes closed . |
| 14 | It 's not only in the dialogue that Harper Lee expresses the tension between the blacks and whites , but all through the book in her description of where people live , where they work , the churches they go to and her detailed description of the court room and how the black community sit on the balcony above , away from the whites , she gives us a vivid idea of the way life was in the 1930 's and sets the scene well . |
| 15 | Shaun , of Hartlepool , Cleveland , said he was too tense to watch Saturday 's great race sitting on the sofa . |
| 16 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 17 | The family folklore has it that when delirious I had said , ‘ A big black dog sat on the bed and said , ‘ Can I holp you ? ’ |
| 18 | The mousy man sat on the suitcase panting dismally . |
| 19 | The sight of the rather forlorn youth sitting on the uncomfortable bed at the top of a vast , almost empty building touched his heart . |
| 20 | The green frog plopped back into the water and disappeared with a loud PLOOK ! — leaving a very puzzled Anabelle sitting on the bank of the canal . |
| 21 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 22 | A mousy-looking woman sat on the end of the bed , her face a blank-looking O of surprise . |
| 23 | He let the words sink into the shocked man sitting on the edge of his bed in Washington . |
| 24 | The DIA was also anxious to get its hands on Syrian George , who had gone to Switzerland with polar Cap to sit on the wiretaps . |
| 25 | Did the Secretary of State read in the memoirs of Dr. Garrett FitzGerald that during the negotiations on the Anglo-Irish Agreement the Government had been prepared to allow judges from the courts in the Irish Republic to sit on the Bench in Northern Ireland as part of what are described as mixed courts , but that that was stopped because of the resistance of then then Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lowry ? |
| 26 | An enormous jug of Edgebone 's home-brewed ale sat on the floor between their chairs . |
| 27 | They were n't real officers , they had just been given a military rank to sit on the tribunal . ’ |
| 28 | He is on the other side sitting on the end of the log . ’ |
| 29 | I incurred his displeasure on one occasion , there was a young lady sat on the form in front , we had those , where you sat in pairs , on the iron sort of things . |
| 30 | A black female cat sat on the floor while her three kittens squealed in the bath , said Mr Owens . |